How do we become energizers in our network?

Robert Cross in Collaboration Overload notes “Energizers win not because they are happy people—although they usually are—but because the way that they engage with others results in better opportunities, ideas, talent, and resources that flow to them over time. “

So often networking is presented as making lots of contacts. The bigger the better your network, the wider the better.

But we pay too little attention to this idea of energizing our network.

Here are a few phrases that come to mind when I think of becoming a network energizer.
💢Listener
💢Empathizer
💢Amplifier
💢Creator
💢Experimenter
💢Connector
💢Pattern recognizer
💢Generosity promoter
💢Ego parker
💢Communicator
💢Time-enhancer
💢Opportunity generator

❓Now You: What words come to mind when you energize your network?

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